The world’s largest open-source open-data library. ⭐️ Includes Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more. 📈 19,348,010 books, 86,614,159 papers, 2,379,209 comics, 508,527 magazines — preserved forever.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Be sure to scan them too. I’ve had virus total detect one or two things on different books.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      So, how do you download and use PDFs from Anna’s Archive or a similar site? Do you download it to a computer that you just use for downloads, then scan the file using Virus Total, then read only on that computer? (I usually read on my phone using Overdrive, just trying to figure out the safest way as a newbie).

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        Personally I DL on a Linux machine and then upload to virus total. If they are clean, then I transfer them to an old android tablet without internet access for reading. If I was reading them on the machine I’d open them in a linux VM, either alpine or fedora silverblue with network aceess disabled.

        The state of the art is qubes OS that has a tool to neuter a PDF by taking screenshots and building a new PDF in different VMs.

          • Aeryl@lemmy.fmhy.ml
            4·
            1 year ago

            If it works by opening it in a sandbox then taking screenshots or printing it back to a new PDF. It should be good.

            Edit: just read the github and it works exactly like this

          • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Ah I forgot about that. I remember when Micah Lee started that years ago and posted about it on twitter.

            I must give it a try and see how it performs. Thanks for the reminder

  • GFGJewbacca@ag.batlord.orgEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    I love that site! I’ve gotten so many books from there. Thanks for making sure more people know about it.

    I recommend pairing that with Calibre to manage all the ebooks you get, and to convert them into useable formats for your device(s).

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Just found out about this myself and it’s top tier. The best way to find ebooks IMO. If it doesn’t work, use IRC, and if that doesn’t work, sign up for Myanonamouse. And if that doesn’t just buy the fucking thing. Actually, request it from your library first and then use a de-drm tool to keep it forever

    • razzey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      seems like this one actually has data from both libgen and zlib, so you can search in one place and get results from both! pretty cool

    • hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      It’s replaced libgen and zlib for me, as there are links to libgen and zlib files at the bottom of most of the pages I’ve seen. Really cool!

  • totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    From what I understand, isn’t this site’s Z-Library content taken from the torrent dumps when the site originally got taken off the clearweb? In that case, won’t it be a bit out-of-date?

    • stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      They index results from five sources and update the main ones (two LibGen forks) monthly. They mirrored the Z-Library database before the website was seized (end of November 2022), indexed the new .onion addresses and haven’t updated the dataset since because they’re waiting for the situation to stabilize in order to figure out a way to regularly fetch new stuff from there too, as far as I know

  • TeryVeneno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    If you use sites like this and you have epubs and pdfs to contribute, make sure that you do! I recently uploaded a book I had access to from my school days for others to use through libgen. I had to search really hard to find it when I didn’t have a lot of money for textbooks. I hope what I uploaded helps others. Be sure to contribute!

  • Gork@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got a book that has been out of print for decades that I’ve painstakingly scanned in page by page. Is there a way I can donate it to the archive?